We are so pleased we decided to fly from Sydney to Melbourne, the way Kate and I was feeling after our stint with Ledge and the gang, we would not have enjoyed a 15+ hour greyhound journey. My dad lives just outside Melbourne so we was going to stay with him for a few days before we went into the city. Daddy Oates met us at the airport gate, I think he was getting a little worried because we were the last off the plane! After a quick hello and bag grab, we headed...

The time had come for us to go to the big city, well, the city I was most looking forward to. Sydney has everything to offer, the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, the shopping, the nightlife, the views, the weather and judging from the people I met, it has lovely people too. Simply I loved it, which is quite dangerous, seen as I was already considering coming back here to work for a year. The Greyhound bus journey wasn't to bad in the end, I slept for a good ch...

Before I start, please excuse me if this blog is brief but I have just spent around 5 hours writing my Byron Bay blog and then I highlighted it all and pressed a letter by accident and it deleted the whole thing, it's not going to be the same and I have sort of lost interest in it now but I will try. We were told about the little hippie surf town of Byron Bay way before we had started to plan our route down the east coast, as soon as we were told stories about i...

Surfers Paradise.. Really? It looks pretty, quite Miami-ish with the skyscrapers on the beach. Maybe it just wasn't a good start for us. We get off the bus in the pouring rain, rucksacks on, day bags on our fronts and food bags in each hand. Quite hungover, no one was there to pick us up, we couldn't find anyone who knew where our hostel was and I needed food. I spotted a subway and gave into temptation instantly. Luckily Kate did too so I wasn't the only fatty. ...

After a bit of a traffic jam, we arrived in Brisbane, dropped off at the coach terminal and for the first time we didn't have a hostel bus coming to pick us up. It's a tad different in a city, because in a sleepy little surf town they know the greyhound bus schedule so they just wait there on the fluke that people are coming to their hostel. ANYWAY, there I go sidetracking again, we got our google maps out and started to find our way, we entered a huge old buildi...